happy thanksgiving!

i hope you're reading this sometime after you've stuffed yourself with turkey and pecan pie and had your fill of family and friends this holiday. me? i'll be spending this day with a bunch of misplaced californians and a few other non-native new yorkers. pete and i are up making yams and cookies for the pot-luck feast that will take place later this afternoon. pete decided to use korean sweet potatoes (the off-white kind, not the orange ones). after adding some brown sugar, the dish looks more like refried beans than candied yams. because of my non-precise measuring, my cookies came out too bready and seem like thick, sweet crackers.

we'll be the laughing stock of the dinner. i'm thankful for spontaneous abdominal work-outs like the ones pete and i had preparing our ghetto food.

it's almost 4am. i should get some rest before our face-stuffing extravaganza.